A trip through Super Search didn't help much with this one, so hopefully someone has been down this road before.

We're starting to use mod_perl in our development as we expose "web services" interfaces to many of our backend systems. But I'm running into a problem that I can't figure a solution to.

We have a single Apache2 dev server. I've configured it with virtual hosts such that each developer has his/her own port. So, calling 192.168.0.100:8001 accesses my virtual host and port 8002 accesses another developer's virtual host.

Each virtual host entry has a "PerlSetEnv PERL5LIB" pointing to the /perllib directory in each developers' individual home directory, so /home/sheridancat/perllib and /home/otherguy/perllib.

In the base apache2 config file, I have the following: 

PerlRequire "/etc/apache2/startup.pl"

<Location /handleit>
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlResponseHandler MyNamespace::Apache2::RequestHandler::HandleStuf
+f
</Location>

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The problem is that which PerlResponseHandler is being called is ambiguous. It could be the version in /home/sheridancat/perllib or the one in /home/otherguy/perllib. If we're out of synch (like because one of us is working) there is frustration because the module in memory may not be the one being worked on.

My hope is that there's a way such that a call to port 8001 will grab /home/sheridancat/perllib/MyNameSpace... and a call to port 8002 will load /home/otherguy/perllib/MyNameSpace....

So, does anyone have any experience setting up mod_perl like this? Any help is appreciated.

SheridanCat

In reply to Writing mod_perl in multi-developer environment by SheridanCat

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